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title: Yet, with all this progress in civilization, despite their mental an… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet, with all this progress in civilization, despite their mental and physical acuteness and their excellent moral qualities, the Tée-wahn are in some things but overgrown children. Who acts: mental acuteness. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Char
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Brown Story-tellers, sentence 46

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Yet, with all this progress in civilization, despite their mental and physical acuteness and their excellent moral qualities, the Tée-wahn are in some things but overgrown children.

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**Who acts:** mental acuteness · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** things

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This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Brown Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mental acuteness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:2:46
# text = Yet, with all this progress in civilization, despite their mental and physical acuteness and their excellent moral qualities, the Tée-wahn are in some things but overgrown children.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	civilization	civilization	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	physical	physical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	acuteness	acuteness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	Tée	Tée	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	wahn	wahn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	overgrown	overgrown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | seamstresses's mental acuteness and seamstresses's excellent moral qualities and the Tée wahn |  |  | some things but overgrown children |  | overgrown children *conj* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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